I can see if accounts do it occasionally and organically but are accounts that exist solely to repost popular and recent posts from twitter/reddit/Facebook healthy for the Fediverse?
There’s a way to do it, and there’s a way not to do it. If you’re reposting something that directly solicits feedback and you don’t know enough to be able to respond, that’s no fun. If you’re looking over reddit, carefully selecting interesting content, and hosting good conversation about it, that’s very healthy. Given you’re using words like “large scale” and “direct,” I assume you mostly have the unhealthy kind in mind.
Yes exactly this. When you post something you should be ready to engage with the comments
Hello I am engaging with your comment
OP noticed me!
I do because there’s a bunch of accounts that are posting a ton of posts a day straight from Reddit.
Like three hundred a day.
I struggle to imagine a way one could create 300 posts per day that would be healthy.
For my .ml crossposting campaign I hit usually 70-100/day with maybe upwards of 150 on busy days, all just notifications from their rss feed.
It just fills the “micro breaks” void that got left behind when I quit vaping. It only takes me like 15/20 seconds per post for most of them. Some do need special handling but that doesn’t add that much
How often do the cm0002 accounts post? There’s a lot, but at least they’re relevant to the communities.
I think I crosspost from .ml anywhere from 70-100 a day, maybe 150 on particularly busy days
But that includes a bulk front load of the overnight posts when I wake up that’s about ~20-40 posts
It honestly just fills the “micro breaks” void that was left behind when I stopped vaping a few years ago
CombatWombat wrote:
If you’re looking over reddit, carefully selecting interesting content, and hosting good conversation about it
agreed, this signals a healthy community and i actively seek out such passionate groups. Bots blindly reposting on the other hand signals spam.
reddit bot spam is annoying
It consistently gets highly upvoted.
As you note elsewhere, these are often highly upvoted and honestly, the fediverse is so small that without those posts, I worry about how much content there would be. (We can cry that people need to post more original content until our lungs give out but…)
So, I’d say this is probably a fine tuning issue. We probably want people to choose if they want to filter out as much content from reddit as possible, bot content only, mass reddit posters etc.
There’s so much fake content being shown that people feel no need to make their own posts.
Definitely not. It’s one thing if the posters add context where necessary and are active in the comments (e.g. PugJesus on history memes), but there are tons of accounts that don’t interact with the comments at all and just spam posts. I think in a lot of communities, they actually crowd out the posters with OC or that would at least stay around to talk about their post.
Also, a lot of these accounts are clearly using some kind of automation for their posts, but can’t be arsed to space out their posts over time so it’s not just 10 of their posts one after the other on All.
Reposting linked content from, yes. To? No. If you still brave those wilds to find content currently lacking on fedi and post here to drive engagement. You’re exactly the type of person the feddi needs. If you’re posting links to external comment sections about said links. You aren’t helping the feddi.
It’s worst with mastodon where there are a ton of not reporters that might be mistaken for actual outlets.
I see it as follows:
There is a chance that if I post something from reddit / twitter / whatever, it gives room to talk about it to someone who would not otherwise have done it because those posts are there and not here (account blocked, deleted, shadowbanned, whatever).
So , to me, it largely depends on what is being reposted. Things like news, official service pages or software releases? Not really useful to mirror to the social networks, you could just link to the source (or a better one than nazi sites use). Cats? Beautiful! Linux? Absolutely! Antiworker life pro tips? Useful! Local stores that don’t have their own webpage but an Instagram instead? Eh, but OTOH how else, unless one of us is volunteering to host them one. Arts and crafts? Nice to have, but with the understanding that the OP won’t get to see our feedback; sometimes that’s fine, sometimes we want to talk about a thing and not to the thing.
I think Lemmy is not at a scale sufficient enough to produce enough original content. I’m okay with tasteful reposting.
Nothing should be reposted from twitter, nazis are fertiliser, they serve no other purpose.
https://lemmy.today/post/59276278
Nope. Everyone hates it.
Everyone upvotes it too.
Honestly, I think there is a quite large set of people who actually like the content. The guy has a point, if it’s highly upvoted on Reddit there was a lot of people who enjoyed the post.
There is also a very loud portion of people who absolutely hates it, (and I can agree that it’s a bit weird to repost content that relates to someone’s personal experience), but I think it’s actually a vocal minority. Perhaps a minority that is overrepresented in the Fediverse meta communities.
Of course it would be awesome and the best if most of the content on the Fediverse was original, but I would be concerned that it’s actually would become too much of a ghost town if the small number of accounts that post a shit ton of content would leave.
I wouldn’t have a problem with it if it was labeled at a bot post so I can filter it out easily but to constantly create new accounts spamming the content is annoying as shit.
My biggest problem is the reposters aren’t sticking around to actively be part of each discussion. They want to be the hero bringing the content without helping make better discussions
I often upvote a couple of posts before I identify a poster as a spammer and block them. Even if the quality of their posts is fine when considered without context, comment sections and actual original content are much more important than reposted memes and spamposting stifles those.
People eat McDonald’s. Doesn’t mean it’s healthy.
